The sticker that I moved onto the inside of the cover says £3.29 from Our Price, and I'd bet that was the branch on Bridge Street, Cambridge, where I bought John Arlott and a few other releases from outside the normal run of things. Did they have a catholic buying policy because it was Cambridge, or were all record shops like that in 1984? The former, mostly, I guess, though you could often turn up something unusual in the most unexpected of places.
What sold this to the teenage geek in me was the presence of two tracks recorded using binaural 'artificial head' recording techniques. The idea of this technique is that, if you listen on headphones, you experience a full 3D sound field, where sounds can appear to be coming from outside your head, unlike normal stereo. You can read the full sleevenotes on the Discogs page. The effect — I've always found — is rather disappointing if expectations have been raised by talk of 'revolutionary' techniques. On A Garden in Springtime you can hear a bee buzzing, and the movement from left to right and back again sounds slightly more convincing than the plain old stereo equivalent on that Pink Floyd album. But only slightly.
Evidently the geek factor of binaural isn't sufficient to warrant a Wikipedia page for this album, while discs 19 and 26 do — but that's Doctor Who and sci-fi fans for you.
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